Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-09-29

ing the flag, come through the passes OF
the Cumberland mountains. chased ana
hunted down by ID. NJ Key, hayes.
Postmaster General lGreat applause.
In response to the past demands OF
the labor organization'of Ohio, 1 aided
with my voice and vote In enaeting
the law for semi-monthly payment 10
employees by corporations; the bill as TO
employment Of children In mines and
factories; the law forbidding payment
10 employees by corporations In scrip or
orders: and the amended mechanics
lien law. / believed then and believe
now that labor, weary and oppressed
labor, that comes to us endorsed by
Divinity itself In the words Of holy
writ, which say, "By the sweat of thy
brow shalt thou eat bread,n can have
all its wrongs redressed and reforms
effected, inside the lines of the Demo-
cratic party. [Applause.]
A word as to the Democratic members
Of the present Senate, who, when serv-
ing their first terms. and candidates
have thus far been endorsed by O re-
nomination. And speak more freely
on this topic because was one OF those
who opposed the caucus action OF the
Democrats Of the Senate until its
adoption. OF its wisdom and pro-
priety have now no doubt. By eau
Gus action, It was determined, when 1t
was suspected that our clerk would
make up q record dictated by Republic
cans, to leave the Senate without q
quorum. This had been done hum
dred times in the history of legislative
bodies, and in no case did the trump"
ever assume to do q legislative act,
with the single exceptions of the
'srumpn Senate of Ohio and Kellogg
Legislature in Louisiana. Our presence
would have legalized what they did,
That their acts were illegal, nnconsti-
tutional and void, is the finding of
Chief Justice Owen, concurred in by
Judge Follet, in their dissenting opin-
ion In the case in which the Republi-
can members of the court found IL to
be a majority of 81, and upon that
opinion, from the most eminent Demo-
cratic judicial authority in Ohio, / am
wholly willing to submit the case. APP
plause.]
We atlast have a Democratic ad-
ministration. All kinds of gloomy
things were said, all sorts of dire pre-
dictions made, in the event of this
national government of ours being ad-
ministered by q Democrat. John
Sherman said in the last Presidential
canvass that q prominent business man
told him that If Cleveland was elected
he would quit business. This man was
at the head of a half dozen big manu-.
featuring concerns, besides being the
president of the Fidelity national bank
of Cincinnati. Laughter.] Well, he
kept his word and quit the other day
(Laughter.]
We have Democratic administra
tion, and it has come to stay, and witt
| it has come more material prosperity
than the country ever before enjoyed
big crops, peace and plenty in the land
the tramp element eliminated, furnac'
| fires light6d from Duluth to Birming
ham, Alabama, new discoveries in art
and sciences, one of natures grea
forces, destined to revolutionize tn
worlds motor powers, utilized beneath
our feet. [Applause.1 The iron band
of commerce stretched in every direc
tion, while through the veins of thi
4 vast country of ours, under the benigI
influence of a Democratic administra
tion, "trade, the calm health OfnatiOns
flows in strengthening tide" GAp
plause.l
Let us do our share here in Ohio thi
fall toward maintaining the ascendenc,
of the party we have served and hope
for SO well and so long. [Great ap
plause.l